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Defence: Finance

Asked by James CartlidgeConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 9 December 2025UIN 97149

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 95420 on Defence: Finance, whether she has a timetable for spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence.

Answered by James Murray

We are set to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on defence spending in 2027, with an ambition to spend 3 percent of GDP on defence next Parliament when economic and fiscal conditions allow.

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